[lbo-talk] Rich different

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:31:52 EDT, BrownBingb at aol.com wrote:
> From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> 
> 
>> From: "R" <rhisiart at earthlink.net>
> 
>> 
>> ... as F Scott Fitzgerald put it, paraphrase, the rich are different from 
>> you and me....
> 
> You bet.  Fitzgerald put it more pointedly in the Great Gatsby:  "They were 
> careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and 
> then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever 
> it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they 
> had made."
> 
> Carl
> ^^^^^^^^
> 
> CB: And the version I've heard is that Fitzgerald says that, and Hemingway 
> replies " Yes, they have more money ".

not to listen to them tell it. 

probably none of you heard the npr report on a poll on 
taxes and income, this morning, since it's the lib'ral 
boozhwah establishment outlet, but it was most 
enlightening. apparently, someone making $300k annually 
running his own business is "middle class" (that's because 
he "might as well not work" because the government takes 
half his income). not only that, a family of five with an 
investment banker's income (it was either a million or ten 
million, i can't remember) putting them in the top 0.2% of 
income is apparently "not rich". asking the stay-at-home 
wife/mother in this family what she would consider rich, 
she pauses a loooong pause, and says, "i don't know; $50 
million? $60 million?"

the whole report was appalling in many ways, imo, but also 
instructive -- if nothing else, of the lib'rul boozhwah 
establishment nature of npr. ;-)

j